of Durham's Report, 20.
Responsible Government: Durham's remedy, 24; Sydenham's campaign of
education, 41, 58-9, 67; Howe's achievement, 51; majority rule, 62-3,
79; the Executive beg-in to presume, 84; the difficulty of reconciling
with the colonial status, 84-5; placemen removed from Assembly, 87;
education of the democracy, 88; right of appointment, 90-91; the
difficulty of government with a small majority, 100; from colony to
free equal state, 161-2.
Rouge party, the, 138.
Russell, Lord John, colonial secretary, 32, 55.
Seigneurial tenure, 140-1, 155; abolished, 141.
Sherwood, Henry, solicitor-general, 76.
Special Council of Quebec, and Sydenham, 38, 49-50, 55, 56, 114-15.
Strachan, Bishop, 69; and the Clergy Reserves, 46, 47; his crusade
against Baldwin's 'godless institution,' 90.
Stuart, James, chief justice of Lower Canada, 37, 50.
Sullivan, R. B., a Reform leader, 70, 77.
Sydenham, Lord, 68. See Thomson.
Thomson, Charles Poulett, his early career and personality, 33-8; his
mission of Union of the Canadas, 38-40, 68; his responsible government
campaign of education, 41-2; the Clergy Reserves, 42, 47-8; on
political and financial conditions in Canada, 48-50, 32; his triumphal
progress, 50-4; his vision of Ontario, 54; Baron Sydenham, 54-5;
initiates Canada's municipal system, 55-6; the first Union Assembly,
58-9, 61, 63-4; the Baldwin incident, 60-1; majority rule, 62-3; his
five great works, 63-4; G.C.B., 59; his tragic and heroic end, 64-5.
Toronto, 1; the founding of the University, 89-90, 106-7; scenes in
connection with the Indemnity Bill, 120-1; the seat of government, 137.
Turton, Thomas, with Durham in Canada, 8.
Union Act of 1840, the, 54-5.
United Empire Loyalists, the, 163.
United States: American detestation of the British, 11-13; 'Hunters'
Lodges,' 25-28; her mistaken views regarding Canada, 121, 133-6; her
elective system of government, 138; her educational system, 139; the
Reciprocity Treaty with Canada, 147-8, 150-5, 110-11; the fishery
question, 148-50, 152; the Civil War, 148, 153, 154.
University of Toronto, the founding of, 89-90, 106-7.
Upper Canada: its political and financial state prior to Union, 23,
31-2, 38-9, 48-9, 114, 115; the execution of the Rebellion leaders, 30;
Opposition to Union, 33, 57; the terms of Union, 40; Clergy Reserves,
45; Sydenham's tour, 53-4; the rise of the colleges, 88-90; the
Metcalfe Crisis, 93.
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